Richard H. Wiggins, III, MD

Languages Spoken: English

Richard H. Wiggins III, MD, CIIP is Director of Imaging Informatics and is Medical Administrator for the Picture Archiving Communication System at the University of Utah. In 2008, the Department of Radiology awarded Dr. Wiggins with the Teacher of the Year Award.

After completing my undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin, where my formal education in informatics and computer sciences continued, I attended medical school in the Texas Medical Center. During medical school at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, I became involved with research with the Head and Neck Surgery Department at M D Anderson Cancer Center, where my interest in head and neck surgery began. After completion of medical school in 1993, I began my surgical training at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and then completed a research fellowship year from 1994-1995 with the head and neck surgeons, head and neck radiologists, and informaticists, creating digital teaching files. Following radiology residency, I came to the University of Utah in 1999, and following a Neuroradiology fellowship year, I have been on the full time faculty at the University of Utah since July 2000. After one year as Instructor, I accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Clinical Track. I have actively and continuously developed my academic career in many significant ways, including clinical, academic, administration, and research activities in both Head and Neck Imaging and Imaging Informatics.